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Future Best-Sellers?

Meet Lesley Bannatyne, Cinthia Ritchie and Janet Ruth, winners in the book festival's annual writing competition. This year's contest attracted 693 entries from all over the world. This may not be the last time we see Bannatyne, Ritchie and Ruth at the festival!

Lesley Bannatyne’s fiction and essays have been published in the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Christian Science Monitor, and Zone 3, Pangyrus, Shooter, and Bosque Literary Magazines; she won the 2018 Bosque fiction prize....

Cinthia Ritchie is an Alaskan writer, ultra-runner and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee who splits her time between Anchorage, Alaska and Tucson. She’s recipient of fellowships at Hedgebrook, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Hidden River Arts, Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, Connie Boochever Fellowship and a 2013 Best American Essay notable mention....

Janet Ruth is an emeritus research ornithologist. She has published scientific papers on bird ecology and natural history stories in bird magazines. Her writing focuses on connections to the natural world....